Computational Neuroscience: Cortical Dynamics | 8th International Summer School on Neural Nets, Erice, Italy, October 31 - November 6, 2003 Revised Lectures

Section 1 - Fundamentals of Cortical Dynamics.- Dynamics of Storage and Recall in Hippocampal Associative Memory Networks.- On the Nested Hierarchical Organization of CNS: Basic Characteristics of Neuronal Molecular Networks.- Neural Phase Transitions That Made Us Mammals.- Section 2 - Mathematical Models of Cortical Dynamics.- Mean Field Methods for Cortical Network Dynamics.- Chaotic Neuron Dynamics, Synchronization, and Feature Binding.- A Complex Systems Approach to an Interpretation of Dynamic Brain Activity I: Chaotic Itinerancy Can Provide a Mathematical Basis for Information Processing in Cortical Transitory and Nonstationary Dynamics.- A Complex Systems Approach to an Interpretation of Dynamic Brain Activity II: Does Cantor Coding Provide a Dynamic Model for the Formation of Episodic Memory?.- Itinerant Dynamics of Class I* Neurons Coupled by Gap Junctions.